Between the Ancien Régime and Liberal Modernity: Law, Justice and State Formation in Colonial Quebec, 1760-1867

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Title
Between the Ancien Régime and Liberal Modernity: Law, Justice and State Formation in Colonial Quebec, 1760-1867
Abstract
The author surveys the historiography of state formation in colonial Quebec, from the British Conquest of 1759/1760 to Confederation in 1867, focussing on law and justice. He structures his survey around three key themes: the Conquest as a point of rupture, with the imposition of a British colonial state and English law on top of a largely French-origin society; the nature of the ancien-régime state over the 80 years that followed; and the historiographical debate over the creation of a new liberal order in Quebec from the 1840s onwards.
Publication
History Compass
Volume
Vol. 12
Issue
no. 5
Pages
412-432
Date
May 2014
Language
en
Citation
Fyson, Donald. “Between the Ancien Régime and Liberal Modernity: Law, Justice and State Formation in Colonial Quebec, 1760-1867.” History Compass Vol. 12, no. 5 (May 2014): 412–432.
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